Hi,
I have a core and cavity for an injection mold milled with a tight parallel toolpath. I'm slightly concerned about how perfectly they will fit together (one half is still on the milling machine) given that the milling machine is fairly slow the stepover of the parallel is 0.1mm, so there will be some micro cusps.
We have an EDM machine and I am wondering if EDM'ing both halves together to get a perfect fit is something anyone does? of if there are any problems with this method? It seems like this should lead to a perfect mold without having to go crazy on the parallels stepovers.
any advice appriciated
I have a core and cavity for an injection mold milled with a tight parallel toolpath. I'm slightly concerned about how perfectly they will fit together (one half is still on the milling machine) given that the milling machine is fairly slow the stepover of the parallel is 0.1mm, so there will be some micro cusps.
We have an EDM machine and I am wondering if EDM'ing both halves together to get a perfect fit is something anyone does? of if there are any problems with this method? It seems like this should lead to a perfect mold without having to go crazy on the parallels stepovers.
any advice appriciated